According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

According to the Julian calendar however, the date was either 29 June ( according to Le Verrier's chronological reconstruction ) or possibly 7 June ( according to Drumann / Groebe ).

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

The date of the introduction of crossbows, however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to Western scholars the older sections of the Book of Enoch ( mainly in the Book of the Watchers ) date from about 300 BC and the latest part ( Book of Parables ) probably was composed at the end of 1st century BC.

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

According to Teruyoshi Nakano, the Godzilla suit made for this film ( known as the Megaro-Goji ) was made in a week, the fastest featured Godzilla suit ever made to date.

According to sources that differ regarding the actual date, sometime between 1901 and 1913 Mathers renamed the branch of the Golden Dawn remaining loyal to his leadership to Alpha et Omega.

According to Jan Nattier, it is most likely that the term Hīnayāna post-dates the term Mahāyāna, and was only added at a later date due to antagonism and conflict between bodhisattvas and śrāvakas.

According to Martin Noth, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the narratives of Isaac date back to an older cultural stage than that of the West-Jordanian Jacob.

According to some critics, the second stanza of the poem, forming a conclusion, was composed at a later date and was possibly disconnected from the original dream.

According to Gasztold ( 1975 ) and the city website, first Slavic settlements in the vicinity of Kołobrzeg were centered around nearby deposits of salt and date to 6th and 7th century.

According to the most authoritative source on the early history of Lie groups ( Hawkins, p. 1 ), Sophus Lie himself considered the winter of 1873 – 1874 as the birth date of his theory of continuous groups.

According to the documentary hypothesis, the first five books of the Bible ( Pentateuch / Torah ), including Genesis, were collated during the 5th century BC from four main sources, which themselves date from no earlier than the 10th century BC.

According to this view, 16 January was really the date of Marcellus ' death, the next occupant of the chair being Eusebius ( Neues Archiv, 1896, XXI, 350 – 3 ).

According to the reformed Roman Rite Roman Catholic calendar, this Sunday is now known by its number within Ordinary Time — fourth through ninth, depending upon the date of Easter — or the fourth through the ninth Sunday after Epiphany in the contemporary Anglican calendars, and that of various Protestant polities.

According to the Fasti Triumphales, Servius celebrated three triumphs over the Etruscans, including on 25 November 571 BC and 25 May 567 BC ( the date of the third triumph is not legible on the Fasti ).

According to dating of the text by Orthodox rabbis, this occurred in 1312 BCE ; another date given for this event is 1280 BCE.

According to the Talmud ( Bava Batra 14b-15a, Rashi to Megillah 3a, 14a ), much of the contents of the Tanakh was compiled by the Men of the Great Assembly ( Anshei K ' nesset HaGedolah ), a task completed in 450 BCE, and have remained unchanged since that date.

* According to Islamic belief, the archangel Gabriel first appears to Muhammad, reciting to him the first verses of surat Iqra ( al -` Alaq ), thus beginning the revelation of the Qur ' an ( approximate date ).

According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day making it the most feared day and date in history.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the Cherusci were defeated by the Chatti but this also gives no date.

According to an article in Nature by Philip Ball, while there are various evidences for silk production in China back to around 2570 BC, newly discovered silk objects from the Indus valley in eastern Pakistan are believed to date from between 2450 BC and 2000 BC, " making them similarly ancient ".

According to the Liber Pontificalis, Marcellinus was buried on 26 April 304 in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, 25 days after his martyrdom ; the Liberian Catalogue gives as the date 25 October.

According to a study published in 2000, the style of the artifacts of the royal tomb date 317 BCE., a generation after Philip II's assassinations.

According to art historian Paul Ganz, the portrait of Amerbach marks an advance in his style, notably in the use of unbroken colours.

According to popular film lore, Shearer was originally never in the running for the lead role in The Divorcee because it was believed that she didn't have enough sex appeal ; it was only after Shearer arranged a special photo session with studio portrait photographer George Hurrell and her husband saw the result, that he relented and gave her the role.

According to a letter from his mother, one day, after a model failed to appear, Whistler turned to his mother and suggested he do her portrait.

According to Paul Attanasio, " he richness of Sherman's March comes from the way McElwee, in his roundabout way, completes the portrait of Sherman he originally set out to achieve "; but " he chief problem is that, at 2½ hours, it's about an hour too long.

According to the memoir of Paul Jennings, a young slave in the White House, Madison's slaves in 1814 helped collect the valuables such as silver, Washington's portrait, and original drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

According to one prescient reviewer in 1876: This portrait of Dr.

According to legend, a portrait was painted of Monmouth after his execution: the tradition states that it was realised after the execution that there was no official portrait of the Duke — so his body was exhumed, the head stitched back on the body, and it was sat for its portrait to be painted.

According to Irwin Panofsky it is Gilles Binchois ' portrait

According to this story, ( the accuracy of which has never been verified ), in 1936 Hitler requested that Spare travel to Berlin to produce a portrait of the Nazi leader, but that Spare refused, remarking that " If you are a superman, let me be forever animal.

According to Janson, not only is the gathering of figures in the foreground for Philip and his wife's benefit, but the painter's attention is concentrated on the couple, as he appears to be working on their portrait.

According to an interview he gave to Tony Barrell for The Sunday Times Magazine in 2001, Rolf discovered the musical properties of hardboard by chance, when he was about to paint a portrait of the conjurer Robert Harbin in 1959.

According to The Guardian, " ny novel set in post-apartheid South Africa is fated to be read as a political portrait, but the fascination of Disgrace is the way it both encourages and contests such a reading by holding extreme alternatives in tension, salvation, ruin.

According to Tom McNee's 1992 portrait of the town The Changing Face of Seaham: 1928 – 1992, St. John's parish church was used as the setting of a 1985 service recorded for BBC Radio 4.

According to Gaddis Smith about Manchester's biography of MacArthur, " Ideologues of the Right will find the portrait too disparaging and those of the Left, too flattering.

According to Sköld-Feiler, the name Snow White was chosen simply because in her portrait, Hanadi Jaradat resembled Snow White with her black hair, pale skin and red lips.

According to Gerber, Ann Turner Cook is the famous Gerber baby, whose portrait is featured prominently on all Gerber product packaging.

According to designer Francis Millet, " The head of Lincoln was selected because it is the only thing which can be used on the medal without offense to the sentiment now happily prevailing over the whole country in regard to the Civil War, and the portrait of Lincoln must be acceptable to everybody, particularly when accompanied by the noble phrase which so tersely and accurately expresses his attitude during the war.

According to the RKD, he became a pupil in 1627 of the portrait painter Frans Hals, at that time the master of Adriaen Brouwer and Jan Miense Molenaer.

According to Lyndon Donlyn, " if you stand on the corner of Clarendon Street and St. James Avenue and look directly into the mirrored surface of the third Hancock, you will see reflected there the first two, aligned hierarchically in an ethereal family portrait.

According to Karel van Mander he was born in Beverwijk in 1500 and was honored for his career in the service of Charles V. He was a friend of Jan van Scorel and his portrait was engraved by Jan Wierix for Dominicus Lampsonius.

According to a memoir by Natalie Barney, one woman complained, upon seeing her portrait, " You haven't beautified me ", to which Brooks replied, " I have ennobled you.

According to a Czech website, in 2011 he is in-progress with a documentary portrait of direct-cinema director Albert Maysles.